CROSSWORD 1290: Waits for them by Doc
A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1990 Port for the first correct solution opened on 6 January, with two runners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary – ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1290, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
The unclued ights (three of two words), ind'vidually or paired, are of a kind, and can be further divided into two timely quartets.
Name Address ACROSS 6 Returned service during a meal (6) 12 Science of dining out is Tory goal (10) 13 One gorge round riverside forest (5) 14 Squeeze old pears out in Kent?
(7)
15 Ornamental plant yielded rug- samples (10, hyphened) 16 Stuck the girl in school (7) 20 Work-units are back in jeans. Great! (4) 22 Write in disbelief of two articles (one's English) (7) 23 He painted girl topless (4) 24 State-bailiffs begging letter (7) 26 Edinburgh murderer measures ladies' quarters (7)
31 ruMure (7 en)tre fenetres et au mur in
34 Heartless registrar's back (4) 36 Molluscs' tongues are dual components (7) 38 Compensating when putting clothes on again (10) 39 Left out 'glove' in dictionary (7) 40 Thrust forward waving gun among the French (5) 41 Prehistoric creature awkwardly sat on burro (10) 42 What's-its-name's activities (6) DOWN 2 Bill's point is, say, good taste (8, hyphened)
3 Tree-man comes round softly (5)
4 Runs slowly into boundary of Lord's with nothing on top (7) 5 Coins Scouse'd exchanged (7) 7 Noisy Scots boy is heard (6) 8 Tree rising from grassy nook (5) 17 Resin's endless shortage (3) 18 Greek serf's bad teeth (5) 19 Flower ruler confused with vine (9, two words) 25 Involve ten, possibly, on corner (8) 27 Face and attack simpleton (3) 28 Aramaic idiom is Nary's undoing (7) 33 Valuable possessions p in a boat (6) 35 European doctor in knock-out set hand on hip (5) 37 Note on ballot-box giving reversal in direction (5, hyphened)
Solution to 1287: Your starter for 10
The unclued l'ghts at 26, 8, 19, 41, 25, 15, 3 and 34 formed the opening words of UNDER MILK WOOD (10).
First prize: C.I. Meek, Winchelsea. Runners-up: Dr Chris Ulyatt, Mt Pleasant, W. Australia; Mrs D. Perry, Budleigh Salterton, Devon.
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